Clifden Poor Law Union archive collection, Descriptive List, GPL3.pdf

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
- „Mr Emerson, Architect, furnished a claim for payment of £6.0.0 for preparing plans,
specification and estimate for converting the Fever Hospital into a hospital for consumptives
and furnishing same. Estimate £119. Fee at 5%.
To be paid. The works have not been carried out‟ (p78).
- Proposal to board-out a child named Patrick Nee (p223, see also GPL3/107, p111 & p143).
107. 11 August 1920 – 28 December 1921 During this period the minutes include
details of correspondence from both the
LGB and Dáil Éireann and instructions
from Dáil Éireann to sever all future communication with the LGB. Also includes:
- „LGB mis letter mp 122/1920M
Calling attention to the series of resolutions passed by certain local authorities in Ireland
repudiating the authority of the Imperial Parliament and disclosing their intention to place
every obstacle in the way of existing administration under His Majesty‟s Government.
Marked “Read”‟ (p5).
- „Read letter received from Dáil Éireann, dated August 1920, Labour Department relative to
forming a permanent Cnciliation Board for the purpose of arriving at a settlement of such
questions as advance of wages, length of working hours and other questions that may
arise...‟ (p22b).
- Master advised the Board that a „troop of the 6 th Dragoon Guard commandeered the strawhouse
and coffin-house from Sunday the 10 th inst. till Tuesday the 12 th . The horses were
stabled in the straw-house and the men in the coffin-house. They were supplied with turf for
cooking purposes during the time they were here‟ (p68).
- „Read letter received DÉ dated 11 th Oct. 1920. Following the instruction ordering a complete
severance of relations with the English LGB, all Dispensary M.O.s be notified that the half
yearly returns hitherto sent to that institution must be henceforth forward to this Department,
and to no other body‟ (p79).
- „Read letter received from the Secretary of the Galway County Council....stating that in
consequence of the stoppage by the government of the grants in aid of local taxation the
County Council are unable to pay in full the demands of the BG and Rural District Council for
the year ending March 1921...‟ (p80).
- Letter from DÉ which confirmed a „report of the Commission which has sat to consider the
relations between Public Bodies and the English LGB in Ireland and ordered, as from 1 st
October, the authority and supervision of the LG Department of DÉ be substituted for that of
the English LGB.
Obedience to this Decree involves a compete severance of relations and a complete
stoppage of communications with the Custom House on the part of Irish Public Bodies and
the furnishing of this Department of all minutes and returns that were hitherto forwarded to
the Custom House...‟ (p118).
- Letter from DÉ advising that „Definite information has reached this Department that minutes
of the proceedings of your Board and its constituent RDCs are still being forwarded to the
English LGB in contravention of the Dáil Decree of the 17 th of September which ordered a
Cartlann Chomhairle Contae na Gaillimhe „…cuimhne dhoiciméadach Chontae na Gaillimhe a shealbhú, a chaomhnú agus a dhéanamh inrochtana’
Galway County Council - Archives „…to acquire, preserve and make accessible the documentary memory of county Galway’
67.